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Newspaper
Halifax Gazette
Location
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Date
Apr 06, 1754
Page
2
An aged reflection laments centuries of gravity and terror in executions and executions. The speaker condemns past savage methods, noting thousands sacrificed and murdered by shameful evidence and color. The text ends with a modern sense of disgrace and restraint on harsher penalties.
A London broadside reprints satirical amendments to marriage law, proposing absurd penalties for mismatched pairings. It mocks petty larceny for two youths, set preservation for a younger brother with an older wife, transport for servants marrying their employers, and branding or burning for certain unions, all framed as a mock legal code from the era.
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